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News May 1, 2020

News Digest May 1, 2020

April Digest
Asimov’s Science Fiction May/Jun 2020
Contents Page
Cady Coleman with Susan Alzner of Shift7 Guest Editorial: Will NASA’s Next Generation Spacesuit Fit You?
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: The One that Gets You Hooked
Jane Yolen “Ode to Cassini” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Two Dooms
Eleanor Arnason “Tunnels”
Alice Towey “The River”
Sandra Lindow “Darning” (verse)
Ian R. Macleod “The Mrs. Innocents”
Jenny Blackford “Feeding Time” (verse)
Brad Aiken & Rick Wilber “Ithaca”
David Gerrold & Ctein “Ronni and Rod”
Dominica Phetteplace “Digital Witness”
James Gunn “Against the Stars”
Ian Watson “Brave New World by Oscar Wilde”
Robert Borski “How an Astroarcheologist Celebrates the Fourth of July” (verse)
Evan Marcroft “Pax Mongolica”
Suzanne Palmer “Hot New Collectible” (verse)
Tegan Moore “Perfect Blue”
Ruth Berman “The Riches of the Cloud Country” (verse)
Bruce McAllister “The Voice”
R. Garcia y Robertson “Living in Wartime”
Norman Spinrad’s On Books: Modern Chinese Science Fiction—Windows into China
• Invisible Planets edited and translated by Ken Liu
• Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
• China Dream by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
Next Issue
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 44 No. 5 & 6, whole No. 532 & 533, May/Jun 2020
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Managing Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistants: Deanna McLafferty, Rae Purdom
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Anna & Elena Balbusso
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Digest Magazine Reviews
Victoria Silverwolf reviews Fantastic May 1965 at Galactic Journey.

James Reasoner reviews Commando: Codename Warlord at Rough Edges.

Gideon Marcus reviews Analog May 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Digest Magazine Blogs
The May/June issue of AHMM is previewed at Trace Evidence.

Robert Lopresti discusses his story “Shanks Saves the World” in AHMM May/Jun 2020 at Trace Evidence.

Gabino Iglesias interviews Wendy Heard at EconoClash Review.

Amanda Hollander on “A Feast of Butterflies” from F&SF Mar/Apr 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Jim Weikart on the International Association of Crime Writers at EQMM’s Something is Going to Happen.

Eleanor Arnason on “Tunnels” from Asimov’s May/Jun 2020 at From Earth to the Stars.

Aimee Ogden on her story “To Persist, However Changed” from Analog May/Jun 2020 at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Nostalgia Digest Back Issue Sale
Spring cleaning unearthed a cache of 2013–2017 back issues at Nostalgia Digest HQ. Fill in your collection here (scroll down), while supplies last.

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook review Warren’s Sept/Nov 1971 titles at bare•bones e-zine.

Peter Enfantino reviews Marvel/Atlas Horror Comics from June 1953 at bare•bones e-zine.

Fate Fundraiser
Support the oldest continuous running magazine of its kind: Fate Magazine. Editor and publisher Phyllis Galde has been at the helm since 2001, but at present Fate is experiencing legal action from an outside force that threatens our ability to continue. The proceeds from your purchase of a Fate t-shirt will go towards legal defense expenses to protect Fate.

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Nostalgia Digest Spg 2020 and Constantine

Readin’ and Writin’
Finished reading the latest issue of Nostalgia Digest this week. Those Were the Days will celebrate its 50th Anniversary this year. Due to the pandemic, the special live event that had been scheduled for May 2nd, will be rescheduled. Nonetheless, this issue of Nostalgia Digest provides an interview with Chuck Schaden, who started the weekly radio show in 1970, as well as a enthralling excerpt from his memoir: Chuck Schaden’s Radio Days—Adding Decades to the Golden Age of Radio (Hall Closet Press, 2019).

Other issue highlights include articles on Tina Cole of Hawaiian Eye and My Three Sons, Raymond Burr, and movie star Jean Arthur. Another satisfying edition of Nostalgia Digest. Keep ‘em coming Steve Darnall!

Inspired by the special all-John Shirley issue of Weirdbook, I picked up a copy of the novelization of Constantine, also by Mr. Shirley, and read it this week. It’s terrific. A beautifully written, action-packed, supernatural, adventure story.

Spent a few hours working an my article about Fotocrime for the next issue of The Digest Enthusiast, and worked in edits from Alec Cizak for the next Pulp Modern—both digests scheduled for June release.

Vintage Western Digest
Western Magazine February 1958 (final issue)

L.L. Foreman “Showdown at Saber Pass”
In a double-crossing, cold-blooded game of cattle empire—a young, beautiful girl was the helpless pawn. And Lobo Turner was king of gunslingers.

Gardner F. Fox “Gunswift”
Returning from a self-imposed exile, Con Mallard had need of his notorious gun rep to combat the savage welcome his old neighbors had waiting for him.

Joseph Chadwick “Trail-Town Raiders”
The tough town of Rawson prepared its tricks and its heady temptations for the unsuspecting trail-driver Riordan—who had acquired plenty of steam to let off.

Ed Montgomery “Robber’s Reunion”
When Cowhide County elected a sheriff, hardcases took over the vote getting.

Western Magazine Vol. 5 No. 1 Feb. 1958
Publisher: Martin Goodman
Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Art Director: Mel Blum
~5.5” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢

Read Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story recap of Western Magazine in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8.

News February 28, 2020

News Digest Feb. 28, 2020

Paul Fraser reviews Astounding Science Fiction Vol. 33 No. 3 May 1944 on SF Magazines.

Victoria Silverwolf reviews Fantastic Vol. 14 No. 3 March 1965 on Galactic Journey.

The print version of season one of Guns + Tacos season one arrived last Saturday. Each of its two volumes, created and edited by Michael Bracken and Trey H. Barker include three stories around 40 pages each. Volume One: Gary Phillips, Bracken, and Frank Zafiro. Volume Two: Barker, William Dylan Powell, James A. Hearn, and a bonus story by Bracken, making this the thicker of the two volumes. Season Two has been ordered and will begin later this year from Down & Out Books.

Art Taylor writes about the story order in his new anthology The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 at Auntie M Writes. (Hat tip Kevin Tipple).

Artist and author Tony Gleeson’s new book, Find the Money, is now available on amazon. The mysterious Vanessa has vanished, and it’s worth a million dollars to a vicious drug lord to get her back. But the ransom disappears, turning up in the hands of a bewildered innocent bystander, while ruthless gangsters and hapless kidnappers alike desperately search for the money. Meanwhile, Detective Marlon Morrison, who only wants to comfortably ride out the final year and a half before his retirement without incident, finds himself involved with a growing succession of murder victims, and a bizarre case growing in complexity by the hour…

Josh Pachter talks to Publisher’s Weekly about his anthologies The Misadventures of Ellery Queen and The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe. (Hat tip Michael Bracken)

Doug Draa announced on Facebook that Weirdbook No. 42 has gone to print!

A.T. Sayre describes his joy and appreciation at having his first story, “Rover,” published in the venerable Analog.

Found all four March/April 2020 Dell digests on shelves this week at my local Barnes & Noble’s. Alfred Hitchcock’s features William Burton McCormick’s cover story “Night Train to Berlin.” Ellery Queen’s cover highlights its “Mystery Strangers” theme. Although not listed on the cover, indie favorite Preston Lang also has a story inside—congrats!

Asimov’s cover features Nancy Kress’ “Semper Augustus” and Analog continues their retro-look celebration of their 90th year. Note F&SF Editor C.C. Finley’s name on the cover, and inside there’s a new story by Edd Vick* and Manny Frishberg. *Vick as interviewed by D. Blake Werts in The Digest Enthusiast No. 6.

Corey Flintoff talks about his “Interlude in Arcadia” (F&SF J/F 2020) on the Fantasy & Science Fiction blog.

Readin’ and Writin’
Finished the audio book version of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and loved it. I listened while driving and more than once got so lost in the gorgeous prose I had to try to remember what was happening in the plot. Narrator Ray Porter’s cadence and inflections are a perfect match to Tom Hanks’.

Also on audio, I listened to Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor. A intimate memoir with Taylor’s recollections of family dysfunction, fighting addiction, and working with Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar, Peter Gordon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and Carol King. This guided tour of his early life is interspersed with his gorgeous melodies. Riveting, sad, and unforgettable.

In print, I read Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine June 1957. This issue wraps up the trilogy of the serialized Weep for a Blond Corpse, with more action and excitement than the previous two installments. It also boasts two outstanding novelets by Helen Nielsen and Tedd Thomey, as well as some fine short stories by Fletcher Flora, James Schucker, D.E. Forbes, Murray Wolf, and F. Keston Clarke. A great issue of a great digest magazine! Watch for my reviews in a coming issue of bare•bones.

Jeff Vorzimmer, editor of Stark House Press’ Best of Manhunt, read through the current issue of The Digest Enthusiast and awarded it a 5-Star rating this week on GoodReads. Thanks much, Jeff!

TDE12 Update: Met with my writing group on Thursday and shared my review of Paperback Fanatic No. 43, which will appear in TDE12. Also completed the initial layout of my interview with Tony Gleeson for the issue. Thanks to Tony, it’s loaded with beautiful artwork—mostly from vintage digests.

From the Vault
Ad copy on page 2: “. . . if you enjoy this issue let us enter a subscription for you so that True Crime Detective may be delivered to you on or before publication date without extra cost. You will find each issue a little better than the one before—an anthology of the best detective true crime stories new and old.” Cost? $1.40 for 4 issues. In 2020 dollars that’s $13.53. I have a feeling it would be more, but I’d get it if it were still being published today. Next week: the final issue.

True Crime Detective Vol. 3 No. 3 Summer 1953
Contents Page
W.T. Brannon “Rendezvous at Rondout”
Joseph Shillips “They Wrote Their Own Convictions”
Homer Croy “Cherokee Bill”
William Roughead “The Merrett Mystery”
Manly Wade Wellman “The General Dies at Dusk”
Miriam Allen deford “The Reluctant Lover”
Frank Mullady “Judgement for a Messiah”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editors: Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
Advisory Editor: Charles Angoff
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Dirone Photography from “Rendezvous at Rondout”
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

News January 12, 2020

Asimov’s Jan/Feb 2020

Contents Page
Sheila Williams’ Editorial: Happy Birthday, Isaac Asimov!
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: The Pharaoh’s Trachea
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Live Long and Whatever
Robert Frazier “Your Clone, the Mirror Clone” (verse)
Neal Asher “An Alien on Crete”
Marie Vibbert “Unlooping” (verse)
Mar Catherine Stratford “Third Shift”
Allen M. Steele “The Palace of Dancing Dogs”
Dominica Phetteplace “The Antidote”
Timons Asaias “Go. Now. Fix.”
Leah Cypess “A Pack of Tricks”
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Jean-Louis Trudel “The Way to Compostela”
Meredith Lozaga “The Refraction of White Lies”
Doug C. Souza “The Kaleidoscope City”
Jane Yolen “Taking Care” (verse)
B.S. Donovan “You’ll Live”
Sheila Finch “Not This Tide”
Jane Williams “Meeting the Man from the Future” (verse)
Next Issue
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Thirty-Fourth Annual Readers’ Award and Ballot
Index 2019
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 44 No. 1 & 2, whole No. 528 & 529, Jan/Feb 2020
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Managing Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Dominic Harman
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 18, 2020
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News November 4, 2019

Asimov’s Nov/Dec 2019

Contents Page
Sheila Williams’ Editorial: A Sadder and a Wiser Woman—tributes to Janet Jappson Asimov and Carol Emshwiller
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: California Secedes!
Peter Payack “Do Not Despair” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Where are the CRISPR Cops?
Rudy Rucker & Marc Laidlaw “Surfers at the End of Time”
Harry Turtledove “Christmas Truce”
Mary Soon Lee “How to Curve Spacetime” (verse)
Siobhan Carroll “The Airwalker Comes to the City in Green”
Brittany Hause “Billets-Doux” (verse)
Michael Swanwick “Clouds”
Ray Nayler “The Disintegration Loops”
R. Garcia y Robertson “Commander Amanda”
Octavia Cade “Inside the Body of Relatives”
James Patrick Kelly “Selfless”
Kali Wallace “The River of Blood and Wine”
James Van Pelt “SeeApp”
Mary Soon Lee “Not for Sale” (verse)
James Gunn “Quantum Theory”
Allen M. Steele “Escape from Sanctuary”
Next Issue
Norman Spinrad: On Books
—Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 by Janet Yolen
—Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
—Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 11 & 12, whole No. 526 & 527, Nov/Dec 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Managing Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Dec. 17, 2019
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News September 16, 2019

Asimov’s Sep/Oct 2019

Contents
Sheila Williams’ Editorial: Thirty-Third Annual Reads’ Awards’ Results
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Rereading Shiel
Holly Day “All the Weight” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Deep Reading
Peter Payack “Surfing at Night” (verse)
Mercurio D. Rivera “In the Stillness Between Stars”
Megan Arkenberg “All in Green Went My Love Riding”
Jane Yolen “Brambles” (verse)
Andy Duncan “Charlie Tells Another One”
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Sandra McDonald “Messages”
Lawrence Watt-Evans “Personal Space”
Leslie J. Anderson “The Celestial Body” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Escaping Amnthra”
James Sallis “When We Saved the World”
Jenny Blackford “Nine hypotheses concerning a mysterious lump under the rug on the foyer floor” (verse)
Eric Del Carlo “The, When”
Rich Larson “Can You Watch My Stuff”
Stephanie Feldman “The Albatwitch Chorus”
Michael Libling “At the Old Wooden Synagogue on Janower Street”
Gord Sellar “Winter Wheat”
Kendall Evans “E.A. Poe’s Electro-Mechanical Raven” (verse)
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 9 & 10, whole No. 524 & 525, Sep/Oct 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Dominic Harman
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until Oct. 22, 2018
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Uncategorized June 26, 2019

Asimov’s Jul/Aug 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: The 2019 Dell Magazine Awards
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Imaginary Voyages
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Full Moon
Tegan Moore “The Work of Wolves”
Robert Frazier “All the Good Things that I Know” (verse)
Dominica Phetteplace “The Universe Within the Universe”
Nick Wolven “The Terminal Zone”
Maggie Shen King “Ardy’s Choice”
Leslie J. Anderson “Tell Me What the Stars Sing” (verse)
Ian McHugh “Story with Two Names”
Ray Nayler “The Ocean Between the Leaves”
Chris Willrich “Fragments from the Library of Cygnus X-1”
Bruce Boston “The Ruined Library” (verse)
Leah Cypess “The Disappeared”
Sandra Lindow “Creation: Dark Matter Dating App” (verse)
Harry Turtledove “Speaker to Emos”
Peter Payack “Scary Scary Night” (verse)
Suzanne Palmer “Waterlines”
Next Issue
Peter Heck: On Books
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Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 7 & 8, whole No. 522 & 523, Jul/Aug 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Maurizio Manzieri
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until August 20, 2018
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News May 11, 2019

Asimov’s May/June 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Anthology News!
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Our Shaggy Cousins
Bruce Boston “Failing Masterpiece” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Fire the Canon!
James Gunn’s Thought Experiment: Science Fiction Considers the Post-Human
Bill Johnson “Unfinished Business”
E. Lily Yu “The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi”
James Sallis “Mother’s Day” (verse)
Ian R. MacLeod “The Memory Artist”
Ted Kosmatka “Sacrificial Iron”
Jane Yolen “Crane Wife” (verse)
Peter Wood “Never the Twain Shall Meet”
G.O. Clark “Distracted While Gardening” (verse)
Sean Monaghan “Chasing Oumuamua”
Fred D. White “Terra Incognita” (verse)
John Richard Trtek “Recrossing Brooklyn Ferry”
David Barber “The Other SETI” (verse)
Jay O’Connell “Not Only Who You Know”
Peter Payack “Timeless Graffiti” (verse)
Rahul Kanakia “The Intertidal Zone”
Next Issue
Carrie Vaughn “Gremlin”
Jenny Blackford “Quantum String” (verse)
Norman Spinrad: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 5 & 6, whole No. 520 & 521, May/June 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: NASA/Shutterstock
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News March 9, 2019

Asimov’s Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2019

Special Tribute Issue: Gardner Dozois
Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Editor Extraordinaire
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Gardner!
In Memorian, Gardner Dozois 1947–2018
Gardner Dozois “The Peacemaker”
Greg Egan “Instantiation”
Rammel Chan “Tourists”
Robert Frazier “Inhale/Exhale” (verse)
Michael Swanwick “Eighteen Songs by Debussy”
Christopher Cokinos “The Dogs of the Soviet Space Program” (verse)
Lawrence Watt-Evans “How I Found Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers”
Bruce Boston “When Words Take Flight” (verse)
Eileen Gunn “Terrible Trudy on the Lam”
Tom Purdom “January March”
Marge Simon “Garbage” (verse)
Zhao Haihong “The Starry Sky Over the Southern Isle”
Jane Yolen “Robot Dreams” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Transport”
Alex Irvine “Isla Tiburón”
Kofi Nyameye “The Lights Go Out, One by One”
Next Issue
Jack Dann “Mr. Death Goes to the Beach”
Allen M. Steele “The Lost Testament”
Peter Heck: On Books
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Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 3 & 4, whole No. 518 & 519, Mar/Apr 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
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News December 28, 2018

Asimov’s Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Just Deserts
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Looking Backward
Michael Meyerhofer “The Moral of the Double Slit Experiment” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Cosmologist, Space Traveler, Hero
Alexander Jablokov “How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots”
Sandra McDonald “Credit to My Nation”
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Meets a Doppelgänger” (verse)
William F. Wu “Written in Mud”
Leah Cypess “All the Difference”
Peter Kanter’s Statement of Ownership
Sean Monaghan “Ventiforms”
Jay O’Connell “The Gorgon”
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Peter Wood “Salting the Mine”
Suzanne Palmer “Taking Icarus Home”
Robert Borski “Eclipse 2017” (verse)
Lavie Tidhar “Neom”
Jane Yolen “A Street Away” (verse)
Robert Reed “The Esteemed”
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Thirty-Third Annual Readers’ Award Ballot
2018 Index
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 1 & 2, whole No. 516 & 517, Jan/Feb 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Michael Whelan
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until February 19, 2018
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News November 13, 2018

Asimov’s Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2018

Contents
Shelia Williams & Michael Swanwick’s Editorial: Never Say “Rather Unlikely” Again
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cats?
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Hones Telepathy” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: We Are the Cat People
Allen M. Steele’s Thought Experiment: The History of Science Fiction, and Why it Matters
Derek Künsken “Water and Diamond”
Jane Yolen “The Language of Water” (verse)
Nick Wolven “Stormdiver”
Julie Novakova “The Gift”
Next Issue
Ray Nayler “Incident at San Juan Bautista”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Joyride”
David Ebenbach “Pregnancy as a Location in Space-Time”
Linda Nagata “Theories of Flight”
In Memoriam: Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)
Tom Purdom “Parallel Military Cultural Evolution in a Non-Human Society”
Suzanne Palmer “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” (verse)
William Ledbetter “What I Am”
R. Garcia y Robertson “Girl With a Curl”
Megan Engelhardt “Echoes of Light from Orbit” (verse)
Peter Heck: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 42 #11 & 12, whole #514 & 515, Nov/Dec 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
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